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[CLOSED] A Quest for Dragons - A Knights Journey
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[center This is a story between a knight and a dragon and a journey unlike any other.]
[center The knight had a secret that he kept hidden from everyone. But one day, unknown to the knight, the king discovers his secret. No action was taken till a few days later.]
[center The knight was pulled aside in private by the king of Velskud and was given a quest. It was a quest of worth, will and perseverance. The knight was told to find and tame a dragon to become a powerful Dragon Knight, not just for the honor but for a powerful force to use to protect the kingdom. [i [b 'It's your duty!']] The king bellowed to the knight. The knight accepted the quest with a bow and prepared for the journey.]
[center But his journey is not going to be an easy one.]
[center Dragons are hard to find let alone tame. When the knight finds an injured man, he will never expect him to be one of the rarest dragons.]
[center Will he figure out the truth in time? Or will he miss his chance?]
[center If the knight does finally tame the dragon, will the pair be able to survive the hardships ahead of them? Will they even be able to survive each other?]
[center Only time will tell.]
[size12 Character Reference]
[b Name ]- Raven
[b Age -] Unknown
[b Gender -] Male
[b Orientation -] N/A
[b Species -] Shifter Dragon
[b Scale Color -] Black
[b Eye Color -] Crimson red with slit pupil.
[b Height(human) -] Varies by form/Usually 6ft 3in
[b Weight(human) -] Varies by form/Usually 155 lbs
[b Abilities -]
[+red Ever-Change:] The ability to change into any human form desired including female and child.
[+red Dragon Shift:] The ability to change into four dragon forms. Dragons forms include Wyvern, normal, wingless and serpent.
[+red Element Control:] Can control the four basic elements to some extent.
[+red Mind Connect:] Once tamed, communication between knight and dragon can be done through mind to mind.
[b Advantages -]
[+red Wyvern:]
Best for long distance flight and controlled steady flight needed for scouting. Excellent for hunting large prey and catching large fish. Tarnished silver colored scales for in-flight camouflage. Can climb if needed. Can be packed. Can fly packed.
[+red Normal:]
Best for midair battle and occasionally ground battle. Very good for long distance ground travel while hauling or heavily packed. Great for climbing even if packed. Powerful flyer.
[+red Wingless:]
Best for long distance ground travel and speed traveling. Excellent for climbing. Can swim. Excellent fighter on land. Good hunter of larger prey due to being fairly agile and maneuverable.
[+red Serpent:]
Best for use in water. Can travel long distances in water even when pulling a raft or small boat. Stealth master on both land and in water. Can be ridden. Flight is obtainable. Can breath under water as well as being able to endure extreme depths. Very swift and agile as well as flexible, allowing for strategic fighting. Excellent for speedy getaways by flying close to the ground and utilizing surroundings. Has a venomous bite that can be deadly if left untreated.
[b Disadvantages -]
Battle is very difficult due a lack of forelegs. Climbing is tricky due to lack of forelegs, causing mobility and stability problems as well as grip and distance limits. Can be packed heavily but prevents flight. Can only fly when lightly packed.
Slow moving on the ground and has poor maneuverability. Flight is hard to obtain on flat terrain and must have a drop to gain flight quickly. Despite being a powerful flyer, staying in the air for too long causes severe exhaustion, making extended flight undesirable in this form. Climbing over steep sides can prove difficult if heavily packed and requires a great deal of strength and strategy.
Unable to fly. Form is smaller than normal and cannot carry as much weight. Due to a lack of webbed feet, swim time and distance are limited depending on the situation. Can only hunt in open areas due to being stiffer and needing more room to make certain maneuvers work.
Riding during true flight is very difficult due to being very unsteady but it is doable with the right skill and/or equipment. Due to only being partially armored, fighting has to be done with great care and with a plan to prevent severe injury. Occasionally has trouble controlling the long body when moving quickly. Salt water occasionally leaves salt deposits on the lining that runs along the inside of the tract that leads to the gills behind the ears, causing pain, sinus/nasal bleeding and gill tract blockages. The ability to transform is also blocked until the blockage is cleared. Due to having only a limited amount of venom, it can only be used once before having to replenish it by eating certain poisonous plants in human form.
[size12 Raven twitched slightly at the sound of the near disaster. All he could hear was something liquid sloshing around. He watched as the stranger opened up the door, letting light pour into the dark room. The light that came through the door, although dim, messed with Raven's night vision. His eyesight was impeccable but light, specially sudden bright light, messed with him.]
[size12 He watched with cautious eyes as the stranger went right for a table. A small tap was made as the tray made it onto the table. Another as something else got moved. Raven was about to move more towards the end of the bed but was stopped by the man's words. It made him hesitate enough to just want to stay still. That and his body was complaining enough as it was. He let out a small moan as his stomach tried to roll over and play dead. He twitched slightly at the sound of something sliding open. He glanced over and saw the stranger, now able to see a bit better since his eyes have adjusted to the light. The man seemed focused on finding something in the drawer as he spoke of the tea. Raven glanced to the tea, weary of the concoction that was in it.]
[size12 The stranger seemed to have found what he was searching for and was able to light the lamp. The flame was intense at first but was brought down to be more like a dull glow. It wasn't bright enough to be a bother to the senses but just bright enough to light up that little portion of the room. Raven moved a little closer to the light, letting the light make the shadows dance around his features. His hair covered his eyes enough to keep the color of them hidden but flashes of shine could be seen as the flame danced.]
[size12 Raven was weary of the whole situation. He watched as the man moved a chair to sit and grabbed a cup for himself and sipped it. He felt a bit better about the drink since the stranger didn't start getting sick all of the sudden. The man's face didn't really give anything away as he relaxed. Raven inched closer to the table, using one hand to reach out and grab the other cup. He sniffed the tea then took a small sip. He couldn't taste anything toxic in it but it was bitter. He made a face showing that it was bitter. Despite the rough flavor, he sipped at the tea anyway. Each sip he took his stomach felt just a touch better.]
[size12 He glanced over to see the man wasn't too fond of the taste either. He watched as he seemed to have gone into thought but came out of it moments later. Raven somehow knew that this man didn't know what he was. Saying he was thankful was an understatement.]
Raven / -Serenity- / 2y 347d 12h 47m 8s
Leste balanced the tray on his knee so that he could open the door to his room. A room that was currently dark and housing the stranger he had brought home. He almost dropped everything when his elbow knocked into the corner of the tray, and he had to make a grab for the tray. For a second he expected the tea to spill, but it stayed inside the cups. The only hint of his near disaster was the liquid sloshing against the chipped ceramic.
[i Close one.] He thought as the door slowly opened up, allowing just a bit of light to illuminate the interior of the room and its bare necessity contents. Save for a bed holding his charge, a small end table with a lantern for light, a chair that had actually been moved from the dining room earlier, and a wardrobe for clothes, all handmade by his grandfather in the past, it was empty.
He went straight to the end table beside the bed and set the tray down on top of it. He was forced to move the lantern back slightly to keep the tray from dropping to the floor. [b "Try not to move too much."] He advised the stranger as he opened the little drawer built into the end table. [b "Azurian darts are coated in the slime that comes from crushing a taproot and mixing it with the poison from certain frogs. This,"] he nodded at the cups on the tray while still searching the drawer for something he couldn't see. [b "Is a mixture of herbs and lichens that counteract the poison and flushes it from your system."]
[i You probably don't want to know how, though.] Leste thought to himself as he struck a small scraper against flint, lighting the lantern in one try with practiced hands. He closed the opening to little more than a crack so that the fire wouldn't catch his house on fire in a freak accident that could possibly burn down half the forest as well but not enough to suffocate the flame. It didn't do too much for lighting, but it cast the darkness from that corner of the room, giving him the chance to see the other's face.
He turned enough to grab the back of the chair in the room and pulled it closer so that he could sit down. He took up one of the cups and sipped from it, partially to show that at least one of them wasn't poisoned and partially because it was better tasting when it was still warm. He relaxed into the chair, letting the little light dance over his features. He knew that trust was important at this time. The best thing was for the stranger to make the first move beyond staring at him through one open eye.
[i I want to know why they were after you.]
Leste closed his eyes to the bitter taste of the tea. In his mind's eye, he could see the dart again. There was something about that dart he felt he needed to remember. It almost felt important. Almost. He didn't try to dwell on it too much. Over-flexing his memories in search of one thing tended to give him headaches, something he really didn't need at the moment if he was going to take care of this person, and he opened his eyes again.
Wishing / Falling_Leaf / 3y 136d 23h 36m 37s
[size12 Raven had managed to keep his stomach in place. However, he looked rather green. He heard movement and knew he wasn't alone. He tried to return to sleep but the sudden whistle of a kettle jolted him awake, causing a wave of nausea and dizziness to hit. He groaned and curled up into a tight ball.]
[size12 The discomfort faded when he heard footsteps coming his way. He picked up the scent of some type of tea. He didn't recognize the scent but he could pick out a couple of familiar herbs that was in it. He didn't know the name of the herbs but he knew what it was. But he wasn't concerned about the tea. He was concerned about who it was that had made it.]
[size12 The first thing he came up with was this man was a dragon hunter. But he was in human form. Most normal people couldn't tell if he was human or dragon. Raven felt pretty safe regarding that matter. But he was still cautious.]
[size12 He sat up slowly, drawing his knees up so he could stop any dizziness from getting too bad. He scooted as close to the wall as he could and not bust through it. He had his face buried in his arms on his knees when he heard the door creak open. He peeked out, his hair forming a thin but dark veil over his face. Under his eyes were dark, puffy patches. His eyes were mostly covered by his hair but the puffiness under them was visible. His skin was pale and had a slight pink flush as if he was running a high fever. He looked as sickly as he felt.]
[size12 He watched as a strange man carried in a platter with two cups on it. Steam radiated from the cups along with the scent of something almost flowery. Or maybe it was fruit. It was hard to tell as the man's nose wasn't exactly working right due to whatever drugs that took him down and out. Raven watched the odd man with one eye. The other was closed and pressed into the clammy flesh of his arm. The slight pressure on his eye helped hold back some of the throbbing pain in his head. He whimpered a little from another, but thankfully weaker, wave of nausea hit.] [b [i 'Please, god, let this pass soon so I can get out of here.']] [size12 He thought to himself as he kept his one eye on the stranger with the steaming cups of tea.]
Raven / -Serenity- / 3y 231d 5h 23m 36s
Leste had made it back to his cabin in one piece, two if he included his sudden baggage in the shape of a human. Now he sat in a hand carved chair his grandfather had made. A fire crackled merrily in the stone hearth, keeping the cold of the night at bay. A black kettle with water and herbs inside sat just outside of the fire. In another room, the only other room, lay his charge.
The young male stared into the fire. His side that had been weeping blood before was perfectly okay now. The dried rivulettes had been cleaned from his skin and his shirt was outside drying. He seemed distracted in the early hours of night, and that assumption would be correct. For in his mind he was remembering things.
A high pitched whistle startled Leste back into the here and now. He got up from the chair with a stiffness that had settled into his muscles and made it hard to move without wincing or sucking in a gulp of air through his clenched teeth. The male half hobbled towards the fire and the kettle that had drove his memories away. Hanging from a nail on the wall was a thick mitt that he now grabbed to use as insulation against the heated metal.
His feet were bare as he took the kettle into the section of the house that served as a dining room. The only thing separating this part of the house from where he had just been was a table with two high backed chairs at each end, a row of glass fronted cabinets with chipped plates, bowls and matching cups and a single drawer that held the few silverware he had.
It wasn't much at all, this lack of furniture and what not, but it was enough to give him a feeling of completeness. Not even the castle of Velskud, with all of its tall paintings and many halls that seemed to lead to nowhere, could amount to the closeness of this small cabin in the woods. This cabin that had been built by the hands of family.
Leste grabbed two of the least chipped tea cups from the cabinet and proceeded to fill them with a light fragranced tea that his Nana had sworn would flush any foreign matter from one's system. Though he wasn't the one that was suffering from the Azurian sleeping dart, his Nana would've insisted that he too partake of the tea to help clear him of his seemingly increasing string of bad luck. So he was going to follow her unsaid advice.
From the only other actual room came the groans that told him his charge had woken up. His mouth tightened around the edges. Never had he dared to let someone he knew in his home and here he was with a total stranger. He felt anxious over this. His hand shook as he poured the steaming liquid into each cup in turn. Nothing spilt despite his unsteady hand, and he picked up one of the small cups to take into the closed off room.
Wishing / Falling_Leaf / 3y 359d 22h 13m 3s
[size12 The men that were chasing the man must have returned to their camp. A lot of the hunters were exiled from their home kingdoms for whatever reasons. They hunted down anything that had a decent payout. From humans to dragons, they hunted them all. Most don't know when to give up. Specially when the target is super rare. However, some groups have some common sense. The group chasing the now unconscious man had enough sense to let him go before they ended up killing him. Speaking of. While completely out cold and unaware, a complete stranger had taken the fallen man to safety in an old looking shack just in time before dark.]
[size12 The remainder of dusk slipped away and turned into night. The sky was clear with hardly any clouds, making the stars more beautiful. The area the man had fallen unconscious in was pretty tight with trees so the sky wasn't easily visible. But it didn't matter anyway. The man was still out cold no thanks to the dart.]
[size12 By the time the sedative wore off, it was already pretty late into the night. The man finally began to wake up and upon waking up, his head began pounding like someone hitting a large drum. He groaned and moved an arm to hold his face but it was then that the pain of his injuries hit him. He was pretty bruised and cut up, some of the wounds beginning to seep as his skin moved and opened the wounds. The man slowly moved his hand back and waited for the pain to settle down and when it did, his stomach flipped with nausea. The man groaned a bit and went a bit green. He went to ball up but once he moved his hands to his stomach, he stopped dead still. There was a feeling of cloth on his abdomen. All over him was a collection of patches and bandages. Some had fresh blood seeping through due to the wounds reopening but they weren't too serious. The man groaned as he sat up slowly, careful not to open any of the more serious wounds. The arrows that had been stuck in him was gone and in their places was patches. But all the man could think of was why he had the bandages in the first place.] [b [i 'Bandages? But how? I was alone when I got knocked out.']] [size12 The man thought to himself before he looked up and instead of seeing trees, it was a ceiling. It was then he realized he was in a bed in someones home. He went to get up but his stomach stopped him as it reminded the man it was there. He flops back into the bed and rolls to his side as the nausea made his whole body feel ill. His back was the only thing visible. He curled himself into a ball and growled as his head ponded along with his stomach.]
[size12 After a while, the nausea and headache lessened. As long as there were no sudden loud sounds, the man would be fine. Same with smells. The man sat up and put his bare feet on the floor. The ground was a bit cold but the coolness felt good. Before getting up, he fixed his silky, black hair so the bangs cast a shadow over his eyes to hide them somewhat. Make them darker than they really were. Hopefully, the one that patched him up won't notice. The man stood up but was forced to sit back down as a wave of dizziness rolled over him. That dizziness brought back the nausea.] [b "What the hell was in that dart? I feel hungover."] [size12 The man mumbles as he holds his head with one hand, palm plastered tightly over his mouth. He groans and uses his free hand to hold his stomach. He was looking pretty green, almost literally. Whatever it was that was used on the dart really did a number on the man and it wasn't going to end well for anyone.]
[size12 Lets hope the man can keep his stomach down.]
Raven / -Serenity- / 4y 5d 26m 42s
Shoulders stooped in failure, a young male rode on the back of a small horse. This wasn't the first time he had gone in search for a dragon under his king's orders and came up empty handed. Now, with the light quickly failing, he found the thinnest of paths that led to his home. A home that was deep in the woods and covered in vines as well as other kinds of creepers.
Leste heaved a sigh and slumped a bit more. His attempt to find a dragon today had brought him close to the Denval, a neighboring kingdom that was rumored to have started their own dragon army instead of murdering children with 'The Devil's Mark.' His close ride to the boundary had brought a few scouts out of hiding, a painful reminder to the tension between the two kingdoms and the possibility of war.
As he headed deeper into the woods, there came a moment when he was forced to turn the horse loose. The trees were too close together now for even a small thing like it to pass through. Leste pressed his forehead against the horse's brow before pulling the bridle off its head. [b "Behave yourself, Akila."] He said. The horse disappeared into the trees after that, but he knew that one whistle would bring the mare back.
Leste shouldered his pack after shoving his broken down saddle into the crooked notch of an old tree. His feet crunched on dried leaves as he began the last leg of his journey home. There was nothing to show for his efforts this day...
Nothing at all...
Nothing but the bright blue feathers of an Azurian hunter's dart sticking into the trunk of a tree.
Young but not completely dumb, Leste stopped in his tracks. His breathing grew slower by the second as he listened to any sounds going on around him. He had lived in these woods for his whole life. The animals here had come to know him and didn't fear his passing, even more so once the mark had appeared on his side. At the moment, those same animals were silent, waiting, watching something that he could not see. It was safe though. He knew it was safe because there was no warm wetness sliding down his skin. No oozing blood that stained his clothes in warning to coming danger. For now.
Leste crept forward slowly. His feet inching one at a time towards the dart that he had first thought was lodged into a tree trunk. He stopped though when he realized that it was a human. A snort came from him and he covered his mouth to keep from laughing. Never before had he seen a person this far in the woods, and most certainly not with a dart sticking out of his ass.
From somewhere deeper in the woods to his right came the first chattering call of a squirrel and his head jerked up, the humor in the dart quickly forgotten. The first squirrel was answered by one a bit closer. A third even closer than that picked up the noise and Leste felt the first ooze of his own blood sliding down his side. Like he had suspected, danger crept closer. He turned to go, wanting to leave this place before getting caught and remembered the dart stuck in the other guy's ass.
[b "Don't do it."] He muttered to himself.
In the next second, he was on his knees beside the tree and stranger. He draped the stranger's arm over his shoulders and used his legs to lift a surprisingly taller and yet lighter male from off the ground.
More squirrels were chattering their warning from the branches above. His shirt clung to his side now as the bleeding increased. Leste glanced around and jumped a bit to shrug the other just a bit further onto his back. His home wasn't too far from here, but he didn't go in that direction right away. His objective being a cluster of rocks that would hide his footprints from the hunters of Azur.
Wishing / Falling_Leaf / 4y 14d 9h 22m 14s
[size12 Normally the prey is usually the one to run away from the predator. But sometimes, it's the predator's turn to run.]
[size12 And running seemed all one man seemed to do.]
[size12 Even though he appeared human, people somehow knew he wasn't. He was always changing his form and yet, people would chase him. All day this man ran and hunters kept following him. Every once in a while the man would turn and spit fire at his pursuers but it didn't work. Someone would keep putting it out. After a while, the man gave up and just kept running.]
[size12 The man wasn't human and could easily take out his pursuers if he wanted to. But all he could think about was escaping. He ran through a meadow with the hunters hot on his tail, the sound of galloping hooves constantly buzzing in the air. He had already taken damage before the chase began. He had gashes and bruises in a lot of places from getting attacked on the ground. He managed to fight them off to get away but only just. Now on the run, he has gotten hit with two arrows, the end of one still sticking out of his right bicep. The other had gone through his left side and was simply pulled through and out. Despite the serious injuries, the man kept running.]
[size12 By late afternoon, the man finally hit a forest line. It was a thick forest too dangerous for horse or man to travel. And with that, the hunt was over. But not until after one hunter used a blow dart to send a poison tipped dart into the escaping male. The dart just happened to hit the male in the left butt cheek. So not only was he wounded and bleeding, he had a brightly colored tuft of feathers sticking out of his ass.]
[size12 The poison in the dart wasn't deadly but instead was a heavy sedative that could knock out, or at least slow down, a dragon. Slowly but surely, the man began to weaken and slow down. Eventually, running was deemed impossible. His breath came in heavy huffs, sweat dripped from his brow and his vision swam. He tried to move forward but his legs locked up, turned to mush and then he tumbled forward like a tree falling, landing face first into a pile of leaves. The instinct to keep running was strong but the drug in the dart was stronger. He tried to get back up but flopped back to the ground. He wanted to move but couldn't. He struggled to stay awake but eventually it became too hard and he fell into unconsciousness.]
[size12 And the day started off so pleasantly, too.]
Raven / -Serenity- / 4y 29d 3h 46m 11s


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College merger hailed a success by regulator in new report
Katie Ridley
Published: 7:07 AM July 18, 2019
Cambridge Regional College, Huntingdon campus. Picture: CRC - Credit: Archant
Staff and students at a college in Huntingdon are celebrating after receiving a "good" rating in their latest Ofsted report.
According to the report, "significant progress" is being made following the merger of Huntingdonshire Regional College and Cambridge Regional College in 2017.
In May, Ofsted inspectors visited the Huntingdon campus of Cambridge Regional College to monitor developments since the merger.
Ofsted inspectors said that leaders, managers and governors had made significant progress in bringing together the two colleges, establishing a shared vision, mission and values and creating an effective management structure.
The report said: "Senior leaders, governors and managers have rapidly and successfully established and embedded a shared culture and new values across both colleges. Staff, learners and governors very quickly developed the 'We Are CRC' brand to create one identity post-merger. As a result, learners, staff and governors have fully embraced the merged college as one organisation."
However, despite an "upward trend" in academic performance, the report also stated that managers and leaders would need to identify clearer targets, with progress in identifying weaknesses in the former Huntingdonshire Regional College set up in the first year following the merger being "slow".
The report said: "Managers do not always state clearly enough what specific actions are needed to enable further or more rapid improvement to take place. They do not always identify clear or inspirational targets. The result is, that although the quality of provision is improving, progress in the first year following merger was too slow."
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Mark Robertson, principal of CRC, said: "We are really proud of the team at CRC who have come together from the two former colleges to ensure that students in our region have an excellent experience and a high quality of education.
"We have worked closely with partners, employers and others to develop a curriculum that meets local needs."
"Applications to study at CRC Huntingdon are up more than 30 per cent compared to this time last year and we are seeing an increase in the number of students travelling to both our Huntingdon and Cambridge campuses from across the whole region."

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For the record: What local lawmakers have to say about the lottery
Mark Schreiner Raleigh Bureau Chief
RALEIGH | For four years he was against it, but now he's on a committee that's drafting a bill that would create a lottery in North Carolina.
"I was anti-lottery for four years," said Rep. Russell Tucker, D-Duplin. "But during the two years I was out of the General Assembly, I had the chance to talk to a lot of people in the district."
Most of them, he said, want a lottery.
Members of the state House from Southeastern North Carolina have opinions ranging from recent pro-lottery converts like Mr. Tucker and Rep. Dewey Hill of Lake Waccamaw
to lawmakers reserving judgment until they see the final
proposal to those who oppose a lottery on personal or moral grounds.
On Monday, state House Speaker Jim Black, D-Mecklenburg, appointed Mr. Tucker to a committee to work on a bill that is expected to come up for a vote in early April.
Interest in the lottery is focused on the state House, where, historically, lottery bills have gone to die. Much of the current debate is centered on where lottery proceeds might go.
Proposals call for the money to be spent on public school construction, university scholarships and on education programs for young children and students at-risk of performing poorly or dropping out.
Supporters estimate a state game could generate $200 million a year or more.
Lottery proponents, including Gov. Mike Easley, are pinning their hopes on lawmakers who have changed positions. Several lawmakers have said lottery proponents were 10 votes short of a majority in the 120-seat House.
Here is what local lawmakers had to say on the issue as of Tuesday.
D-Columbus
Position: Yes.
Quote: "I've not been a supporter of the lottery, but I will vote for it this time. North Carolinians are playing the lottery in other states. We need to capture that revenue and use it in our state."
Ever played a lottery?: No.
R-Pender
Quote: "I am going to vote for the lottery because I have bothered to find out what my constituents want. They want a lottery."
R-New Hanover
Position: Maybe.
Quote: "If the lottery proceeds go to school construction, I'm for it. I cannot - will not - vote for a lottery proposal that sends even one dollar to the general fund to be used for who knows what."
Ever played a lottery?: Yes.
D-Bladen
Position: No.
Quote: "I don't support gambling of any kind. That's pretty much my take on it."
R-Brunswick
Position: Undecided.
Quote: "I believe the word representative means what it says - I'm supposed to represent the majority opinion in my district. I'm going to find out what that is and then make my decision."
D-Duplin
Quote: "My position has changed over four years. I used to be against it. The people in my district are for it. I'm not going to use the lottery myself, but the people of district want it want a lottery, I'm voting for it."
D-New Hanover
Quote: "This issue is about what the proceeds will go for. I'm for doing what it takes to keep North Carolina financially strong and independent - that means putting lottery proceeds toward spending down our debt and put money away in our reserve accounts."
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Interesting discussion--it adds another quiver to the response bow when asked: "why should I register the mark as opposed to merely relying on rights of use?"


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import test from 'ava-spec';
import { call, put } from 'redux-saga/effects';

import { userActions } from '../../Redux/';
import { loginWithFirebase, authenticate } from './authenticate';
import { statusCode, sendEmailVerificationWithFirebase } from '../../Services/';

const actionMock = {
  type: 'type',
  email: 'email',
  password: 'password',
};

test.serial.group('Normal', () => {
  const generator = authenticate(loginWithFirebase, actionMock);

  test('could set the requesting status to `redux store`', (t) => {
    t.deepEqual(
      generator.next().value,
      put(userActions.userRequest()),
    );
  });

  test('could make a request to authenticate', (t) => {
    t.deepEqual(
      generator.next().value,
      call(loginWithFirebase, actionMock),
    );
  });

  test('could send email verification', (t) => {
    t.deepEqual(
      generator.next({
        status: statusCode.Ok,
        message: '',
      }).value,
      call(sendEmailVerificationWithFirebase),
    );
  });

  test('could finish `generator`', (t) => {
    t.deepEqual(
      generator.next().done,
      true,
    );
  });
});

test.serial.group('Abnormal', () => {
  const generator = authenticate(loginWithFirebase, actionMock);

  test('could catch the error for authentication', (t) => {
    generator.next();
    generator.next();
    t.deepEqual(
      generator.next({status: statusCode.InternalError, message: 'error'}).value,
      put(userActions.userFailure('error')),
    );
    t.deepEqual(generator.next().done, true);
  });
});

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Bryerson may refer to:

 Mrs. Bryerson, a fictional character from the television series Mona the Vampire
 Dawn Bryerson, a fictional character from the film Blackwoods

See also
 Bryer (disambiguation)
 Son (disambiguation)

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The Samsung Galaxy Ace Style is an Android smartphone that comes with a 4.0-inch screen and a resolution of 480x800 and 233ppi density. Powering the device from within is a 1.2GHz Dual-Core Broadcomm BCM21664T processor with 512MB of RAM. The phone comes with 4GB of internal storage with a microSD card that expands the memory to 64GB. Taking pictures from the phone can be done on the 5MP rear-facing camera or the 0.3MP VGA front-facing sensor. The back camera is able to record videos with its 720p HD camcorder. It has a 1550mAh battery that helps give power to the device for up to 13 days on standby mode and 8 hours of talk time. Upon unboxing, the device runs on Android 4.4 KitKat OS with TouchWiz Essence UI on top of it.


Nestled on the banks of the Columbia River in central Washington, the roughly 250-square-foot home is hexagon-shaped, perched nearly 9 feet above the ground on three massive steel beams. Inside, earthlings are greeted by an open floor plan.
he bedroom sits down a small ladder and can comfortably sleep two people. Upstairs, there's enough room for a small outdoor deck where you can gaze at area wildlife, including eagles and lynxes. If the space reminds you of the tiny, well-intentioned living quarters of a boat, it's no coincidence. The lunar lander's owner and designer, Kurt Hughes, is a boat designer by trade.


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Q: Jquery Full Calendar Filter - Not Fully Understanding A Statement I found what I need from this post but not fully understanding why i cannot change the statement of:
return ['all', event.school].indexOf($('#school_selector').val()) >= 0

to look for the displayed text value of the select using:
return ['all', event.EventType].$("#TypeList option:selected").text() !== '';

When ran while my statement, I get nothing for a calendar grid (get the header only). Seems like followed the same logic, if the selected text is not 'blank', return true, and sort for X.
I am current using the static demo events from the calendar sample code, while I am working on this filter issue. I seen some other ways of doing this, with removing and adding the event sources, but this seems like an easier, and quicker (without all the round trips) of filtering.
Thanks,
Dave

A: You will need to write it like this:
return ['all', event.EventType].indexOf($("#TypeList option:selected").text()) >= 0

Since you appear to be having trouble understanding the syntax, let's write this long-hand:
var event = { "EventType": "XYZ" }; //dummy event data

var arr = ['all', event.EventType]; //an array, which now contains two items = "all" and "XYZ"

var selectedText = $("#TypeList option:selected").text(); //let's assume the selected text is "XYZ"

var locatedIndex = arr.IndexOf(selectedText); //return the index where "XYZ" appears in the array, if any. As we can see, it should return 1, as it matches the item at the 2nd index (arrays being zero-indexed)

//now check whether the index was 0 or more (i.e. we found the item. It will output -1 if it didn't find it).
//If we found it, return true. If not, return false.
if (locatedIndex >= 0) { return true; }
else { return false; }

I hope that helps to understand what the statement is actually doing.

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I've spent the better part of two weeks exploring some of the most stunning scenery I've ever encountered, and today in Bryce Canyon, everything I saw was as beautiful as everything I've seen.
Which led me to wonder… If everything is beautiful, is anything beautiful?
If you asked me what was the highlight of my trip, I couldn't answer. If you asked me the most beautiful place I visited, I would stammer and shrug.
As I wandered around Bryce today and took some three hundred pictures, I wondered how I would pare them down to a reasonable number. They were all equally beautiful. Except they weren't. After a while, walking and driving through the park, nothing was beautiful. Because how do you measure beauty against the most beautiful things nature has ever produced?
I somehow pared down the 300 photos to 68, which I posted in a Google album.
And above is just one to whet the appetite. It's the first one I took, my first view of Bryce Canyon from Sunset Point. The one where I just gazed in wonder and didn't worry about if it was just as beautiful as everything else I've seen on my trip.
Check out the rest. They're really beautiful.


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White House Considering Update To Mask Guidance as COVID-19 Delta Variant Continues to Spread; Press Secretary Says No Decision Made
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White House press secretary Jen Psaki denied that any changes were forthcoming at her Thursday press conference.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – After months of declining cases of COVID-19 being reported and a slow-but-steady return to normal, the United States may be looking at a new round of government-recommended mask-wearing once again thanks to a surge in infections due to the more-contagious Delta variant of the virus, in addition to vaccination rates plateauing in some parts of the country.
As initially reported by the Washington Post, numerous calls by health officials over the past few weeks to recommend masks for all citizens – vaccinated or not – have apparently reached the White House, with the Biden Administration said to be discussing the possibility with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
In May, the CDC announced new guidance on masks in light of the public's access to COVID-19 vaccines, saying that face coverings and social distancing were no longer needed indoors in most situations if you had been inoculated.
A growing chorus of doctors and health experts say the CDC's mask guidance led to the de facto lifting of mask policies for unvaccinated people — and many argue that's fueling the current delta surge.https://t.co/izkQkWfC7f
— NPR (@NPR) July 23, 2021
Initially, infection rates continued to go down, but recently have seen a major uptick as the Delta variant – said to be responsible for 83 percent of infections in the U.S. – has spread through areas with exceptionally low vaccination rates, with Florida, Texas and Missouri alone accounting for forty percent of this week's COVID-19 cases.
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky stated that the seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases leading up to July 20 was 37,674, reflecting a 52.5 percent increase over the previous week. In addition, Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy noted that 97 percent of hospitalizations and 99.5 percent of deaths related to COVID-19 are among the unvaccinated.
However, as reports persist that the White House is actively holding discussions as to the possibility of revising guidelines regarding mask-wearing and social distancing in the wake of the Delta variant's spread, White House press secretary Jen Psaki denied that any changes were forthcoming at her Thursday press conference.
CDC: 'No intention of changing' mask guidance 'at this time' https://t.co/xKLeMI0shZ
— FOX 5 DC (@fox5dc) July 22, 2021
"The head of the CDC, our public health arm, just spoke to this earlier this morning and made clear that there had not been a decision to change our mask guidance," she said. "We are guided by science and we're guided by our public health experts and any decision would come from the CDC… There has been no decision to change our mask guidelines."
It should be noted that the CDC cannot implement or enforce a mask mandate; this lies in the hands of states and municipalities; for example, Texas Governor Greg Abbott recently said he will not be implementing another mask mandate.
Currently, over 56 percent of those ages 12 and up in the U.S. are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC.
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Home Columns Women Now that Quincy B is Laid to Rest, What's Next?
Now that Quincy B is Laid to Rest, What's Next?
Claudia Smith
Christiana G. Burrowes, mother of the late Quincy B
His mother's two wishes
Mother Christiana G. Burrowes has been through a lot in the past few weeks since the passing of her son, Quincy B, whose death moved thousands of people who turned out at the Antoinette Tubman Stadium in Monrovia to accord him the funeral of a national hero.
"Quincy B wanted to establish a school of music to lay a foundation for our family and with the help of God and all of you who loved him so much, I hope this can happen," Madam Burrowes stated via a telephone interview.
She said her son had one wish he woke up with every day and that was to dedicate himself to what he was so good at: making music.
"When we left for Ghana during the war, I had a lot of land and when we returned all was taken away and sold. I was ready to fight (for the property) in court, but my son told me that he would buy us land to build on," she recalled sadly.
Recently, two groups created a Gofundme account to raise money to assist the Burrowes family with burial expenses and also to sustain them afterwards. An account represented by DJ Flexx in Australia delivered US$1,125 to the grieving family to help build Quincy B's grave.
Donors have assured that more money will be raised and Lewiz McCarthy, Quincy B's manager, will be contacted.
Meanwhile, there was another Gofundme Account created in America by Sonie Gr, Eric Geso's manager. So far they have generated more than US$7,500 and, according to the donors, the account has a target goal of US$10,000.
"This is how this site works. Once our goal has been reached, the account will close but that does not mean we cannot continue to raise more money for other reasons. The way his grave needs to be hurriedly protected to ward off any other rumors, we can raise money for that," they stated.
Meanwhile, there are 34 days left to raise the targeted amount and once the amount has been obtained, they say that the money will then be presented to Quincy B's mother to care for his daughter named Quindy, and the parents.
With that said, the money being raised is safe and has not been released to anyone's account, according to Infectious Michael.
"I told the family that I will continue to support them with whatever they need and that they can depend on me. Right now we are in the process of trying to straighten everything out, including any business deals Quincy B might have had before his passing, including his contracts," he assured.
Mother Burrowes is appealing to the public for two things:
"I need land, at least 5 acres, to make my late son's dream come true – for a musical institute and school to help so many artists become the best that they can become.
"Secondly, Quincy B promised me a place to stay. Right now we are not in our own place but my father's house. If anyone is willing to help us with land for both projects so that I can keep all my family together because that's what Quincy wanted, that will be the greatest gifts to me," she added.
Anyone willing to help should contact Taku on (+231) 770 236 007. Those willing to donate further funds to secure a family that solely depended on their son to complete their lives are asked to donate.
During the writing of this article, mother Burrowes informed this reporter that she was visiting her granddaughter, Quindy, and the child is doing fine.
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The staff were lovely, the view amazing and the room comfortable and spotless. The only minor gripes were a smelly drain in the bathroom, a broken toilet flush button and flat batteries in the TV remote. But none of these this minor things stopped us thoroughly enjoying our stay. Will definitely stay again.
Everything was great. Only negative was the fluctuations in temperature and flow in the shower, and, as my stay was for four nights, I learnt to anticipate the changes.
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Q: Android Studio Update setDependencyCacheDir error How can I resolve this error :
Android Studio : 3.1.4
Gradle version : 4.4
Android Plugin Version : 3.1.4
What went wrong:
A problem occurred configuring root project 'myApplication'.
> Failed to notify project evaluation listener.
   > com.android.build.gradle.tasks.factory.AndroidJavaCompile.setDependencyCacheDir(Ljava/io/File;)

Can I use Old Gradle(4.4) and Android Plugin version(2.14.1) with new Android Studio (3.1.4) as my current project is using this.

A: Try deleting build folder in root and project repo, Also try removing gradle cache folder may be it helps. usually it happens because there are some corrupt files in root folder

A: Update the gradle-wrapper.properties file
distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
distributionPath=wrapper/dists
zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.4-all.zip

and Root Project Dependencies
 dependencies {
        //Gradle dependencies
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.1.4'

        // Kotlin if use kotlin your project
        classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"
        classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-android-extensions:$kotlin_version"
        classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.1.0"

        // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
        // in the individual module build.gradle files
    }


This next recipe is a healthy version of chocolate fudge ice lollies, delivering a rich, creamy and delicious flavour. These lollies couldn't be more simple or delicious and only have 3 main ingredients; coconut milk, raw cocao and medjool dates, with no added nasties like many dairy alternatives have. These lollies taste amazing and will definitely be a staple to my summer days - being vegan doesn't mean you have to miss out on treats!
These lollies only contain natural sugars from the coconut milk & medjool dates, meaning they are free from gluten, soy and refined sugars - to make raw, substitute the coconut milk for 200ml raw coconut water + 200g raw coconut meat. Make sure you use full fat coconut milk in this recipe, low fat milk just has more water added and won't bring the same texture to the lolly. You can store these in the freezer (in the moulds) for a few months after freezing, but chocolate fudge ice lollies are pretty hard to resist!
I used rocket moulds for this recipe but any shape will do & are available in the seasonal isle of any supermarket. What's your favourite thing to eat in summer? Leave a comment below with your favourite vegan summer treats and your thoughts on this post!
Blend together all the ingredients until the mixture is completely smooth (if the coconut appears to be separating then keep blending until combined).
Pour the mixture into the moulds and place in the freezer for 4+ hours.


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Q: Javascript if else problem My if-else is not working, I think that I have a variable issue. When I look at the value of x it is not what is entered in the text field. Any Ideas?
function guess() {

    var x = document.getElementById("magic");

    var word = "please";
    if (x == word) {
        alert("You entered the magic word!");
    } else {
        alert("Please try again!");
    }
}

<form>
    What is the magic word?

    <input type="text" id="magic" onchange="guess()" />
</form>

A: You want:
var x = document.getElementById("magic").value;

Also, onchange won't work, you'll need to use onkeyup, although onblur is probably more sane:
What is the magic word?

<input type="text" id="magic" onblur="guess()" />

function guess() {
    var x = document.getElementById("magic").value;

    var word = "please";

    if (x == word) {
        alert("You entered the magic word!");
    } else {
        alert("Please try again!");
    }
}

http://jsfiddle.net/6uAhq/

A: You're not getting the value. Use this:
var x =document.getElementById("magic").value;

A: You need to check against the actual value of the "magic" element, e.g.:
var x = document.getElementById("magic").value;

I'm assuming "magic" is an input.


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Robert S. Boynton (1963) és un escriptor i editor americà a qui s'atribueix la creació del terme Nou Nou periodisme que fa referència a un estil de periodisme basat en la implicació a llarg termini dels reporters en la recerca de la història fins al punt de poder dedicar diversos anys en una història. El Nou nou periodisme és una evolució del nou periodisme que s'adapta a les particularitats de la societat actual, com els gelocalitzadors en les investigacions policials o la missatgeria instantània.

Després d'haver-se graduat amb honors en filosofia i religió per la Universitat de Haverford, es va llicenciar en ciències polítiques a la Universitat Yale. Ha estat editor de Harper's Magazine i col·laborador del New Yorker. Els seus articles sobre raça, cultura, periodisme literari, psicoanàlisi i propietat intel·lectual han aparegut en diverses publicacions com The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, The Village Voice o Rolling Stone. És autor de The New New Journalism: Conversations with America's Best Nonfiction Writers on their Craft (2005), un llibre d'entrevistes amb escriptors que fan servir tècniques pioneres en el reportatge d'investigació. Actualment està treballant en la història dels inicis del periodisme literari als Estats Units.

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The first generation of Ford Mustang is very, very difficult to mess up. Even with subtle additions, it provides a bountiful blank canvas for personal expression. This 1967 example has just the right amount of extra something, putting it into properly gorgeous territory.
What is it that makes almost every modification to early Mustangs look so good, and almost every modification to a third-generation Chevy Cavalier look just so universally terrible and disgusting, like a finger in the eye to every great artist that ever lived?
Guesses go in the comments below. This picture goes on your desktop.
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ROLAND WHITE: Laurels for Thomas Hardy, a literary lion but a write-off as a kind husband
DUK Editor Team Send an email September 15, 2021
Thomas Hardy: Fate, Exclusion And Tragedy
A House Through Time
Poor Thomas Hardy. He rises from humble origins to carve out a remarkable career as a novelist and poet, he is awarded the Order of Merit and buried in Westminster Abbey.
Yet what happens? More than 90 years after his death, he is exposed on national television as a rotten husband.
One of the most dramatic Hardy moments is the scene in which drunken Michael Henchard, later the Mayor of Casterbridge, sells his wife to the highest bidder at a country fair.
According to Thomas Hardy: Fate, Exclusion And Tragedy (Sky Arts), that was probably wishful thinking: a reflection of the way he felt about his first wife, Emma.
Thomas Hardy, who has fallen out of fashion in recent years, was a gloomy novelist and this account of his life made no attempt to lighten the mood, writes Roland White
As she once bitterly observed: 'He only understands the women he invents — the rest, not at all.'
She lived in the attic rooms of their home in Dorset, and their relationship was so bitter he turned down a knighthood because he didn't want her to be Lady Hardy.
Yet when Emma died and he was free to marry his mistress, Florence Dugdale, he was convulsed by grief and guilt.
He kept her coffin at the end of his bed for three days, visited parts of Cornwall where he and Emma had shared happy memories, and wrote some of the best poetry of his career in her memory. Men, eh?
Hardy, who has fallen out of fashion in recent years, was a gloomy novelist and this account of his life made no attempt to lighten the mood. It was the sort of show you rarely see on mainstream television these days: a procession of serious, rather academic talking heads.
Well, mostly serious: I did note that the pro-vice chancellor of Liverpool University wore a huge brooch in the shape of a white mouse.
An urn containing the heart of novelist Hardy is carried during a funeral procession in Stinsford, England, to be buried in his wife's grave
THIS WEEK'S HIDDEN MESSAGE
In Passport To Pimlico (Talking Pictures), part of London leaves the UK in favour of French rule.
In 1949 it was a jolly comedy.
Now it feels like a training film for voters who want to rejoin Europe.
Free Pimlico now!
One light moment came when the programme recalled how Hardy probably provided inspiration for the word 'cliffhanger'. When his novel A Pair Of Blue Eyes was being serialised, he left his hero, Henry Knight, dangling from a cliff edge at the end of one episode.
Luckily, Henry's love interest, Elfride Swancourt, was a resourceful young woman. Even though it was 1873, she had no hesitation in whipping off her underwear and lowering it to Henry as a rope.
How fortunate that the knickers of Victorian romantic heroines came supplied by the yard.
In A House Through Time (BBC2), the historian Professor David Olusoga continued to discover enough drama in a modest end-of-terrace home in Leeds to cobble together a soap opera.
Last week's episode told how a young boy burned to death in a domestic accident, and last night we learnt that later residents also had their share of tragedy.
One of factory owner Benjamin Wild's workers died after his arm was ripped off in an industrial accident, and later the factory was burnt to the ground in a suspected arson attack, soon after a strike. Scooping up the insurance, the Wild family moved to the United States.
In A House Through Time (BBC2), Professor David Olusoga (pictured) continued to discover enough drama in a modest end-of-terrace home in Leeds to cobble together a soap opera
The next residents, Andrew and Mary Mellish, lost a year-old son to rickets. They were replaced by a William and Mary Lucy Whiting, who were Quakers and anti-war campaigners.
There was romance — the young man who literally married the girl next door — and a touch of glamour in the story of Edward Partridge, who mixed with the smart set (at arm's length) as a waiter on a Cunard liner.
All human life was there. I wondered, does every home in the country have similar stories to tell, or was the research team just lucky when they picked that address in Leeds?
Christopher Stevens is away.
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Footage captures endangered 50ft right whale frolicking with her calf off the coast of Hilton Head
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Loose players are the most profitable type of opponents that you could ever hope to face. Though they will undoubtedly cause occasional frustration with their seemingly random hands, they are most likely to donate stack after stack. A lot of players will get upset when a loose (bad) player beats them out of a big pot, but this is the completely wrong way to go about beating them.
The best thing about loose players is that they tend to do most of the work for you. You won't need to place value bets since they will call anything, and you don't need to worry about making bluffs because you know they are never really going to fold. Loose players are the closest thing to money in the bank when you are playing poker. Yes, they are definitely going to get lucky and win from time to time, but this is what keeps them coming back for more.
Defining a loose player can be a challenge if you only have a limited sample size to work with. After you get through a handful of orbits with a player, however, you should have a pretty good feel for how they approach the game. If a player is limp calling all kinds of raises in every other pot, you can be pretty sure that they are way too loose for their own good. Now, it is important to note that there are some very big differences between loose players and aggressive players. More often than not, a loose player is calling down bets while an aggressive player is the one making the bets. Aggressive players are the complete opposite of loose players in that they are much tougher to beat. Watch out for aggressive opponents and take full advantage of the looser players.
Pre-flop is where you need to avoid getting yourself into some unnecessary trouble. It should go without saying that most loose players tend to hate folding just about anything before the flop. They figure that they have two cards and just about anything can come on the flop. While this is certainly true, it plays heavily into your favor. Beating loose players out of money pre-flop is a long term proposition with no short term guarantees. So long as you are getting your money in good, though, you can be assured of a significant profit. You are going to have runs, sessions, and maybe even days where the calling stations are just beating you out of every pot, but this is not your long term expectation.
Since a calling station, by name, is going to call down at every chance they get, making plays is all but useless. If you are facing some tighter players, stealing the blinds and re-stealing pre-flop will be one way to make some money. When you are facing the loosest players at your table, however, you should stick to some hands that have real value. This could mean playing anything from suited connectors to small pocket pairs and big pocket pairs. So long as there was a legitimate shot that you could wind up with a big winner at showdown, it is worth playing.
The key to playing with calling stations is being able to dictate the action to your own accord. In other words, you should be looking to super cheap investments wherever possible. If you can limp into some pots with suited connector type hands against a loose player, you are setting yourself up for some very profitable hands. On the other hand, calling off big bets or making big bets of your own with weak hands is nothing short of bankroll suicide.
Just as you should be looking to make small investments with more speculative hands, you should also be pumping up the action whenever you have a super strong starting hand. The primary characteristic of loose players is that they hate to fold their hands, so you can punish this tendency by making unordinary large raises and re-raises pre-flop. Say that you would normally open to 4x the big blind with pocket aces. If you are up against one or two loose players, it would only make sense to chance that bet size to 5x or 6x the big blind. You know they aren't going to fold anyway, so you might as well squeeze as much money out of them as you can. Value betting before the flop is a great way to nickel and dime loose players.
Post-flop is where the real money is to be made against loose players. Once you hit that big flop, you need to be able to string your fish all the way to showdown. It does little good if you get them to play the pot, you hit the board, and then they fold. The first thing you should do when assessing your post-flop strategy is determine whether they are more of a caller or a bettor. There are two common types of loose players: the guys who like to do the betting and the guys who like to call every bet. Once you know what type of player you are up against, the hand will be infinitely easier to play.
The post-flop strategy for beating these loose players is nothing short of incredibly simplistic. Let the guys bet who like to bet, and bet out at the guys who like to call. Applying one type of strategy to the opposite type of player is a great way to sacrifice large sums of money. There is no need to get tricky against these players because they won't know what is going on anyway.
Once you get the action started, you still need to be able to keep them in the hand. Just as you did not want to force a fold on the flop, you don't want to get a fold on the turn or river either. The precise strategy for keeping your opponent involved and interested will change from hand to hand, but it shouldn't be a great puzzle trying to determine which plot will work the best.
As odd as it might sound, loose players are the easiest opponents to lay down hands against. If you are facing one of the players who tends to like to do the calling, you should be very wary when and if they decide to make a bet or raise. This usually means that they are done seeing card after card and now they want to go after your money. If you get into a pot with a loose caller, bet the flop, and then get raised on the turn, you had better put on the brakes. Yes, your opponent could be making a move on you, but it isn't all that likely.
Loose players, whether they be callers or bettors, tend to stick to their mode of operation. As soon as a player strays from their usually set of plays, there is an increased chance that something suspicious is going on. The best play is to get out of the way when loose players start to get tricky. Even if they happen to be bluffing you, the money saved will be more than compensated for by all of the times where they do actually have a real big hand.


Scripting meets File Search. The new LoadSearch command is the nexus of two of XYplorer's strongest features: Scripting and File Search. In combination with the Catalog, UDCs, and XYS files, you can now easily build handy libraries of complex live searches.
Scripting meets the Web. The new Download command enables you to download any internet content straight into your file manager with a single click or keyboard shortcut!
Whatever URL is on your clipboard it will be downloaded to your current folder in XYplorer.
You need to regularly download a specific file from the web? Why not do it with a single click!
This simple line will download the current XYplorer full package to your current folder.
A related command is the new ReadURL, which will read internet content into a variable ready for further processing.
Variables have to conform to a stricter syntax: They are represented by a dollar sign ($) followed by the name of the variable. Names start with a letter (a-z and A-Z) or underscore, followed by any number of letters, numbers, or underscores.
Dots (.) now function as string concatenators. Hence now, strings containing dots have to be quoted to preserve the dots!
The command addstr has been dropped.
The release package now includes a sample Catalog which will be used on application startup if no catalog.dat file already exists.
Copy Image. A new command allows you to copy the image of an image file directly to the clipboard without first having to open the file in an image viewer application.